There are several threads that offer links to various Optimized Applications and Other Binaries (Applications) for various platforms (computers/OS) to keep things running. Sometimes sorting through the various threads gets to be a bit much. At this time we are going to roll the various threads into One Read Only Thread and as the various Developers have something new it will be posted here. The Goal is to have one place to look that has the quick information for Seti Applications for Windows, Mac, Nix. What should be shown is the only the Latest Information by the various developers and other Helpful Links.

There are other message threads to ask specific questions or report problems.

Lunatics is pleased to announce anRSS Feed for New S@H Optimized Applications releases. Click and bookmark the link below to receive News via your browser or RSS reader & get the latest updates as they are announced.

Special Thanks!!! to John37309 @ Lunatics for the technical & coding help!

This release is designed to install optimised Seti@Home applications on your Windows PC, that already has Boinc installed, is attached to, and is processing work for the Seti@Home project.

These installers are specifically designed to minimise the effort, confusion and difficulty sometimes encountered with installing Lunatics' third party optimised applications for Seti@Home, while not impeding further customisation & enhancements.

Choose From 3 editions.

Lunatics welcomes your comments and suggestions as to current ease, difficulty, functionality, and suggested improvements for future versions.
Please feel free to post here on the boards or @ Seti Main Number Crunching board.

HYBRID ATI GPU/CPU Optimized AstroPulse_v505 5.05 for Windows OS (r280)
Two editions available now at Lunatics

Hi Everyone,

A SETI@Home AstroPulse optimized application for Windows has been released for use w/ HYBRID ATI GPU and CPU hardware.

This build uses ATI GPU as coprocessor to perform some part of AstroPulse algorithm on GPU instead of CPU. This will free CPU for other tasks.

Thanks to Raistmer for introducing a new ATI GPU-compatible optimized application.

Special thanks go to Jason G and Josef W. Segur for app features, algorithm discussions and useful hints, alpha testers: Arnulf, arkayn, heinz and Urs Echternacht for early spot of some app issues and useful comments about app behaviour, Gipsel for sharing some MW design approaches about sharing GPU between apps and all beta testers who tried app usability on their hosts.

To all of you we value your input and would like to hear from you at Lunatics'

Thanks to Urs Echternacht for updated source improvements and porting to FreeBSD and OSX, derived from original r112 byCrunch3r, Jason G & Raistmer.

Special thanks once again go to zvonas for motivating the FreeBSD builds, Arkayn and Gecko_R7 for OSX alpha testing & all the Lunatics members who performed final Beta testing, for their expertise, input & assistance.

To all of you we value your input and would like to hear from you at Lunatics'

For Windows 98/ME:
- No changes. nVidia does not support Cuda on these operating systems, so no changes are applicable. Installer revision remains at last release 0.36.

WARNINGS:
- As always USE at YOUR OWN RISK, and 'Your mileage may vary'
- A Cuda Installation will install application support for 6.08(cuda), 6.09(cuda23) , and 6.10(cuda_fermi) app_versions. Which one Boinc actually chooses to mark yourr work doesn't matter, the tasks are all the same. Unlike stock, this build is intended to run on a wide range of hardware, so all versions are the same. This has consequences if your current tasks cache is marked with something other than any of the 3 stock standard version/plan_class labels, in that you would need to drain your cache first, to avoid losing work.

- Though not 'essential', <flops> app_info entries are highly 'recommended', but this installer doesn't put them in. We haven't come up with a good way for the installer to do this automatically yet, but when we do you can be sure there'll be another installer update.

Known Issues:
- Not Comaptible with Marius' Rescheduler 1.9. It is recommended to either stop rescheduling (due to server changes) or use Fred's variant which allows prevention of '-177' errors. Those errors are a feature of server side changes to the way task elapsed tiimes are estimated, rather than internal to the science application. Fred's variant has some support to prevent these errors if they become a problem for you.

FAQ -
- Todo (Keep this post bookmarked)
- Will be added here as your questions arise, so please check back to see if your issues have been answered.
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